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Grace [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Favor; good will; kindness; disposition to oblige another; as a grant made as an act of grace

2. Or each, or all, may win a lady's grace

3. Appropriately, the free unmerited love and favor of God, the spring and source of all the benefits men receive from him.

4. And if by grace then it is no more of works. Romans 11:5 .

5. Favorable influence of God; divine influence or the influence of the spirit, in renewing the heart and restraining from sin.

6. My grace is sufficient for thee. 2 Corinthians 12:9 .

7. The application of Christ's righteousness to the sinner.

8. Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. Romans 5:2 .

9. A state of reconciliation to God. Romans 5:2 :2.

10. Virtuous or religious affection or disposition, as a liberal disposition, faith, meekness, humility, patience, etc. proceeding from divine influence.

11. Spiritual instruction, improvement and edification. Ephesians 4:29 .

12. Apostleship, or the qualifications of an apostle. Ephesians 3:8 .

13. Eternal life; final salvation. 1 Peter 1:13 .

14. Favor; mercy; pardon.

15. Bow and sue for grace

16. With suppliant knee.

17. Favor conferred.

18. I should therefore esteem it a great favor and grace

19. Privilege.

20. To few great Jupiter imparts this grace

21. That in manner, deportment or language which renders it appropriate and agreeable; suitableness; elegance with appropriate dignity. We say, a speaker delivers his address with grace; a man performs his part with grace

22. GRACE was in all her steps.

23. Her purple habit sits with such a grace

24. On her smooth shoulders.

25. Natural or acquired excellence; any endowment that recommends the possessor to others; as the graces of wit and learning.

26. Beauty; embellishment; in general, whatever adorns and recommends to favor; sometimes, a single beauty.

27. I pass their form and every charming grace

28. Beauty deified; among pagans, a goddess. The graces were three in number, Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne, the constant attendants of Venus.

29. The loves delighted, and the graces played.

30. Virtue physical; as the grace of plants. [Not used.]

31. The title of a duke or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England, meaning your goodness or clemency. His grace the Duke of York. Your grace will please to accept my thanks.

32. A short prayer before or after meat; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered.

33. In music, graces signifies turns, trills and shakes introduced for embellishment.

34. Day in grace in theology, time of probation, when an offer is made to sinners.

35. Days in grace in commerce, the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payor to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States the days of grace are three, but in other countries more; the usages of merchants being different.

Grace [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.

2. Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line.

3. And hail, ye fair, of every charm possess'd,

4. Who grace this rising empire of the west.

5. To dignify or raise by act of favor; to honor.

6. He might at his pleasure grace or disgrace whom

7. he would in court.

8. To favor; to honor.

9. To supply with heavenly grace

Grace [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

2. The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor.

3. The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon.

4. The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery.

5. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune.

6. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit.

7. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.

8. Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse.

9. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England.

10. Thanks.

11. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal.

12. Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc.

13. An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree.

14. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops.

Grace [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.

2. To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor.

3. To supply with heavenly grace.

4. To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.

Grace Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

This word is understood in several senses: for beauty, graceful form, and agreeableness of person, Prov. i, 9; iii, 22. For favour, friendship, kindness, Gen. vi, 8; xviii, 3; Rom. xi, 6; 2 Tim. i, 9. For pardon, mercy, undeserved remission of offences, Eph. ii, 5; Col. i, 6. For certain gifts of God, which he bestows freely, when, where, and on whom, he pleases; such are the gifts of miracles, prophecy, languages, &c, Rom. xv, 15; 1 Cor. xv, 10; Eph. iii, 8, &c. For the Gospel dispensation, in contradistinction to that of the law, Rom. vi, 14; 1 Peter v, 12. For a liberal and charitable disposition, 2 Cor. viii, 7. For eternal life, or final salvation, 1 Peter i, 13. In theological language grace also signifies divine influence upon the soul; and it derives the name from this being the effect of the great grace or favour of God to mankind. Austin defines inward actual grace to be the inspiration of love, which prompts us to practise according to what we know, out of a religious affection and compliance. He says, likewise, that the grace of God is the blessing of God’s sweet influence, whereby we are induced to take pleasure in that which he commands, to desire and to love it; and that if God does not prevent us with this blessing, what he commands, not only is not perfected, but is not so much as begun in us. Without the inward grace of Jesus Christ, man is not able to do the least thing that is good. He stands in need of this grace to begin, continue, and finish all the good he does, or rather, which God does in him and with him, by his grace. This grace is free; it is not due to us: if it were due to us, it would be no more grace; it would be a debt, Rom. xi, 6; it is in its nature an assistance so powerful and efficacious, that it surmounts the obstinacy of the ...

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Grace-cup [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The cup or health drank after grace.

Graced [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Adorned; embellished; exalted; dignifies; honored.

2. Beautiful; graceful. [Not in use.]

3. Virtuous; regular; chaste. [Not in use.]

Graced [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable.

Graced [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Grace

Graceful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Beautiful with dignity; elegant; agreeable in appearance, with an expression of dignity or elevation of mind or manner; used particularly of motion, looks and speech; as a graceful walk; a graceful deportment; a graceful speaker; a graceful air.

2. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus

3. rode.

Graceful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech.

Gracefully [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

With a pleasing dignity; elegantly; with a natural ease and propriety; as, to walk or speak gracefully

Gracefulness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Elegance of manner or deportment; beauty with dignity in manner, motion or countenance. gracefulness consists in the natural ease and propriety of an action, accompanied with a countenance expressive of dignity or elevation of mind. Happy is the man who can add the gracefulness of ease to the dignity of merit.

Graceless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Void of grace; corrupt; depraved; unregenerate; unsanctified.

Graceless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt.

2. Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4.

Gracelessly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Without grace.

Graces [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Good graces favor; friendship.

Graces Encyclopedia Britannica

GRACES is the name generally given to the Greek goddesses Charites. The chief seat of their worship was the ancient Boeotian city Orchomenus. They were three in number, but their names were not known; and stones fallen from heaven stood in their temple as symbols of the goddesses (Paus., ix. 35). Their worship was instituted by a king Eteocles, whose three daughters fell into a well while dancing in honour of the Charites (Westermann, Myth. Gr., p. 387). In no Greek legend is the pre-Greek Indo-Germanic character more strongly marked. Eteocles, he whose glory is real, is the Vedic Satyaçravas, the sun; and his genealogy consists of a string of epithets for sun anl dawn. Charis (Skt. han, bright), is an old adjective, originally an epithet of the light-illumined clouds which seem to escort the dawn, often applied in the Rig-Veda to the horses of the dawn or of the sun, and at last growing into a distinct deity who preserves the character of the ancient dawn-goddess (see Müller, Led. Laug., ii.; Sonne in Kuhn, Zft., x.). The burning bright vasas (Ushas, τ)ως, Aurora, with a different suffix Ostara, Easter) —who restores the blessings lost during the night, who lights up what was dark and reveals the hidden wrong, who give3 active labour and wealth to men, growth and fertility to plants—had been from the earliest time the centre of a great worship To appearance these religious ceremonies have been lost in Greece; and in a people so retentive of all that relates to religion, this implies merely that the worship of the dawn has been changed in outward form. Eos is of slight importance; but Charis, Hebe, Aphrodite (in so far as the genuine Greek goddess has not given way to the Oriental deity) preserve and develop the original idea. Charis then was the goddess of the ...

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Genesis 6:8

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

Genesis 19:19

Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

Genesis 32:5

And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.

I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, menservants, and maidservants. I have sent this message to inform my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”

Genesis 33:8

And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.

“What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.

Genesis 33:10

And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.

But Jacob insisted, “No, please! If I have found favor in your sight, then receive this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, since you have received me favorably.

Genesis 33:15

And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.

“Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”

Genesis 34:11

And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.

Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor, and I will give you whatever you ask.

Genesis 39:4

And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household and entrusted him with everything he owned.

Genesis 47:25

And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.

“You have saved our lives,” they said. “We have found favor in our lord’s eyes, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”

Genesis 47:29

And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,

Genesis 50:4

And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please tell Pharaoh that

Exodus 33:12

And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.

Then Moses said to the LORD, “Look, You have been telling me, ‘Lead this people up,’ but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have found favor in My sight.’

Exodus 33:13

Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.

Now if indeed I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your people.”

Exodus 33:16

For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.

For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”

Exodus 33:17

And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.

So the LORD said to Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”

Exodus 34:9

And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

“O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”

Numbers 32:5

Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.

“If we have found favor in your sight,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”

Judges 6:17

And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.

Gideon answered, “If I have found favor in Your sight, give me a sign that it is You speaking with me.

Ruth 2:2

And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.

Ruth 2:10

Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?

At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”